Cambodian Genocide

By cameron.maciejewski

  • U.S. Bombing

    U.S. Bombing
    Cambodia had become part of the Vietnam battlefield. During the next four years, American B-52 bombers, using napalm and dart cluster-bombs, killed up to 750,000 Cambodians in their effort to destroy suspected North Vietnamese supply lines.

  • Vietnam invasion

    Vietnam invasion
    Vietnamese soldiers were searching for an end to the border attacks by the Khmer Rouge and thus launched a full-scale attack to bring an end to it all.

  • Fall and Rise

    Fall and Rise
    The city, Phnom Penh, fell and Pol Pot was deposed. The Vietnamese then began a puppet government of the Khmer Rouge defectors.

  • Pol Pot Dies

    Pol Pot Dies
    73-year-old Pol Pot died of a heart attack following his arrest, before he could be brought to trial by an international tribunal for the events of war crime during the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-79.